Yes, this is expected - you can only control the application volume via gnome volume - eg if you're playing Real Audio, the Gnome Volume will control realaudio's volume. It will not control OSS volume.

ossxmix will give you additional features that Gnome will not. So why bother with it.?

We are working on a new gnome volume control that should support the new OSS v4.0 mixer features.

dev wrote:Yes, this is expected - you can only control the application volume via gnome volume - eg if you're playing Real Audio, the Gnome Volume will control realaudio's volume. It will not control OSS volume.

Thanks for the confirmation.

dev wrote:ossxmix will give you additional features that Gnome will not. So why bother with it.?

The Sun Type 7 keyboard has volume buttons, which Gnome is happy to map to
volume up/down/mute, but they affect (only) the Gnome mixer. I guess I could have them
mapped to an external application...

If only the internal sound device on the ultra40 wasn't so noisy - clicks and hum all
of the time